Comments by "Paddle Duck" (@paddleduck5328) on "Secular Talk"
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Trump party affiliation:
Republican:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
Independent:
2012, 2011
Republican:
2010, 2009
Democrat:
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Independent:
2000, 1999
Republican:
1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987
Ind. or other: 4 years
Democratic: 8 years
Republican: 20 years
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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https://tytnetwork.com/2016/04/22/rescinding-daily-pennsylvanian-article/
In 1991 Uygur wrote an article on the The Daily Pennsylvanian in which he expressed the opinion that the genocide of Armenians during the late stages of the Ottoman Empire did not in fact constitute genocide, a view he repeated in a letter to the editor of Salon in 1999.
In a blog post in April 2016, he announced that his views on the matter had changed significantly since 1991 and formally rescinded the statements. He went on to mention that he does not know enough today to comment on the genocide.
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cenk_Uygur
Rescinding Daily Pennsylvanian Article
Today, I rescind the statements I made in my Daily Pennsylvanian article from 1991 entitled, āHistorical Fact of Falsehood?
When I wrote that piece, I was a 21 year-old kid, who had a lot of opinions that I have since changed. Back then I had many political positions that were not well researched. For example, back in those days I held a pro-war rally for the Persian Gulf War. Anyone who knows me now knows that I am a very different person today.
I also rescind the statements I made in a letter to the editor I wrote in 1999 on the same issue. Back then I had a very different perspective and there were many things that I did not give due weight.
On this issue, I should have been far, far more respectful of so many people who had lost family members. Their pain is heart-wrenching and should be acknowledged by all.
My mistake at the time was confusing myself for a scholar of history, which I most certainly am not.
I donāt want to make the same mistake again, so I am going to refrain from commenting on the topic of the Armenian Genocide, which I do not know nearly enough about.
Thank you for being patient with me on this issue, though I might not have always merited it.
Cenk Uygur
https://tytnetwork.com/2016/04/22/rescinding-daily-pennsylvanian-article/
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Mutineer9 how about two wrongs donāt make a right? In case you havenāt noticed (whether youāre foreign born or actually living in a Slavic country), our side is against all of that nonsense. Youre preaching to the choir. Youāre barking up the wrong tree, go troll the right wing Trump channels if you want to bring them around to your way of thinking.
KGB spy Putin doesnāt want to make the world a better place, his minions are targeting left-leaning candidates to lose and growing support for far Right movements all over Europe.
He just wants to weaken the West, and prove the Western way is wrong.
https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/aug/31/denmark-and-sweden-boost-defence-ties-to-fight-russian-cyber-attacks
Ask Denmark and Poland how innocent Russia is in threatening other counties with invasion. NATO is the force holding back Russia from taking over and invading at least the old USSR states that want to keep their independence. Russia wants to weaken the EU and all cooperative efforts in the west, to get out of his way.
Iād prefer a less corrupt state than one where people canāt even demonstrate in streets, and support Navalny. I donāt want to be like Russia where our reporters are assassinated and nobody bats an eye.
Or Chechnya with Russia bombing apartment buildings filled with citizens, or a government beats and kills gays.
Yeah, we arenāt the greatest and have a long way to go to our ideal, but we are making progress. I have plenty of criticism for our own country. Doesnāt mean we just give up, go āoh well, weāre not perfect so we canāt point fingers at others wrongdoingā and lay down in apathy.
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http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
Trump vs. Hillary
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-5565.html
Trump vs. Bernie
Current National Polling
November 6, 2016
Gravis Marketing, a nonpartisan research firm, conducted a random survey of 1,638 registered voters across the United States.
The poll was conducted on November 6th and has a margin of error of Ā±2.4% at the 95% confidence level. The total may not round to 100% because of rounding. The poll was conducted using interactive voice responses, with the results weighted by voting patterns.
If the Presidential candidates were Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump, for whom would you vote?
Sanders 56%
Trump 44%
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Gravis_Sanders_Election_Poll.pdf
Bernie Sanders would have crushed Donald Trump according to new pre-election poll.
The poll, reported by the Huffington Post, found that the Vermont senator would have likely earned 56 per cent of the vote, while Mr Trump would have only received 44 per cent.
Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson, who endorse Mr Sanders during the primaries, commissioned the poll by Gravis Marketing.
Hillary Clinton did not fare quite as well in the poll amongst Independent voters ā who could not vote during the primaries, resulting in Mr Sanders' loss to the former Secretary of State.
The poll found that Mr Sanders led Ms Clinton among independent voters 55 to 45 per cent.
Ms Clinton suffered a major blow Tuesday night from that particular demographic, losing independents to Donald Trump 48 per cent to 42 per cent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/bernie-sanders-beaten-donald-trump-pre-election-poll-a7412636.html
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Ā @adesignersperspectiveĀ maybe you can use some of that supposed medical dr assisting experience you say you have and be a lot more specific about your criticisms? Thatās a lot of emotional invective and cuss words. If you needed to vent your spleen and get your frustrations out, I think youāve now done that thoroughly in your previous posts. And found sympathy from the conservative who you said your friends accused you of being. š Try some of that calm, cool sciency language. Iām not the only one asking for clarification and to please be specific.
Judging from your initial post you said you were accused of being a science denier and a Trumper. Most of us have some pretty similar ideas probably what that means, but how about instead of us assuming, you just lay it out.
I also am confused where the CIA comes into the science and data part of your unclear but passionate implications. (Was that you, or another poster?)
And Iām going to throw in my laymenās opinion that the public sort of needs to be treated like idiots sometimes lol. The public often sucks with nuance and gray areas or unclear simple messaging. You said youāre pro vax, look at all the holdouts on getting vaccinated.
Half my relatives didnāt get vaccinated, and theyāre mostly Trumpers, libertarians, conservatives, and 1 bonafide Q nut.
We now have 13 people in our family who have been sick with covid this past week and a half.
So Iām a little grumpy and tired addressing this topic, as itās been affecting a whole lot of my relatives and extended family. I hope youāll understand why Iām skeptical and am asking for details. How old are you and what is your education?
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So popular his government threatened peopleās jobs to come out and vote for him:
Some 145,000 observers were monitoring the voting in the world's largest country, including 1,500 foreigners and representatives from opposition leader Alexei Navalny's political movement. Navalny himself is barred from running.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-election-voters-head-to-the-polls-to-hand-putin-a-4th-term/
Many voters said they were under pressure from their employers to vote.
Yevgeny, a 43-year-old mechanic voting in central Moscow, said he briefly wondered whether it was worth voting.
"But the answer was easy ... If I want to keep working, I vote,"
he said. He said his bosses haven't asked for proof of voting but he fears they will.
He spoke on condition that his last name not be used out of concern that his employer -- the Moscow city government -- would find out.
Yevgeny Roizman, the mayor of Russia's fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, told The Associated Press that local officials and state employees have all received orders "from higher up" to make sure the presidential vote turnout is over 60 percent.
"They are using everything: schools, kindergartens, hospitals -- the battle for the turnout is unprecedented," said Roizman, one of the rare opposition politicians to hold a significant elected office.
A doctor at one of the city's hospitals told the AP how one kind of voting pressure works.
The doctor, who gave her name only as Yekaterina because of fears about repercussions, said she and her co-workers were told to fill out forms detailing not only where they would cast their ballots, but giving the names and details of two "allies" whom they promised to persuade to go vote.
"People were indignant at first, said: 'They're violating our rights' ... but what can you do?"
she said at a cafe Saturday.
Yekaterina said she wasn't sure what she would do with her ballot, musing that "maybe I'll just write 'Putin is a moron.'"
But she understood that not showing up at the polling place Sunday would not only endanger her job but would reflect badly on her boss, whom she likes.
She said she wouldn't go to vote if she wasn't forced to.
"What's the point? We already know the outcome. This is just a circus show," she said.
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Oh please what resources did he get? To be on the receiving end of smear campaigns by Clinton... who bought the dnc? Or maybe the tens of thousands of dollars he paid for the privilege of using NGP VAN software, a company run by two Clintonites who planted an insider as his data manager? Oh maybe he benefitted from having attack articles written against him by journalists who were chummy with Luis Miranda, the DNC communications director? You know, the Clinton-selected guy who Robby Mook has DWS agree to hire in August *2015*...before the first primary vote, before any of us regular citizens got to choose Webb, OāMalley, Sanders or Clinton.
And Bernie never pretended anything. Unlike robotic Hillary who has no class, no genuine connection with people, no ethics, Bernieās been very open the whole time that he is an independent as a senator from Vermont.
And he ran as a Democrat for president...if heād won a fair primary, weād have a democratic president in office today. Bernie.
Heās more democrat than most of the democrats who are official party members. You care more about a title than a persons actual character and platform.
Must be a fan of Clinton, who has zero character or integrity ...but hey, whatās really important is she presented herself to the world as a democrat. And a human being.
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Ā @davidchidester5463Ā youāre right there are more factors. April fact check on USA Today:
Lumber prices have soared across the United States in recent months, a trend some on social media are blaming on the new Democratic occupant of the White House.
An April 8 Facebook post, which includes a photo of a Home Depot price tag, is captioned, "America held hostage, day 79 of living in leftist-imposed hell!"
The post also includes a list of rising prices for 3/4-inch plywood since March 2020, claiming that there has been a "252% price increase on one of the most used pieces of common lumber for construction."
But the post itself ā like others making similar claims ā unintentionally points out the absurdity of this line of thinking. Going back to March 2020 creates a time span mostly falling under the Donald Trump presidency.
The lumber price spike is all about the COVID-19 pandemic, not Democratic President Joe Biden.
USA TODAY has reached out to the posters.
COVID-19 fueled spike in lumber prices
Lumber prices have indeed spiked, but it's not related to the Biden administration.
Prices rose by more than 250% in the last year, according to Business Insider. The National Association of Homebuilders said the increases added more than $24,000 to the price of the average single-family home.
Of course, most of that increase came while Trump was still in office.
Like other products, lumber prices surged amid the pandemic as mills were forced to close or slow production. Pandemic home improvement projects, mill production cuts and this year's building season have caused an increased demand for lumber while supply remains low, leading some experts to predict prices will stay high.
The association attributes the escalating lumber prices to "insufficient domestic production."
It's similar to the aftermath of Hurricane Harvey, though on a smaller scale. Then lumber prices went up by 30% from August 2017 through January 2018, the association said.
According to its website, the NAHB "reached out extensively to the Trump Administration, members of Congress and to lumber mills calling for prompt action to address supply shortages that were harming small businesses, home builders and ultimately, the overall economy," and will continue to do so under the Biden administration.
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10% against Trump had a lot better chance of winning vs. 3% against Trump.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_clinton-5491.html
Trump vs. Hillary
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2016/president/us/general_election_trump_vs_sanders-5565.html
Trump vs. Bernie
Current National Polling
November 6, 2016
Gravis Marketing, a nonpartisan research firm, conducted a random survey of 1,638 registered voters across the United States.
The poll was conducted on November 6th and has a margin of error of Ā±2.4% at the 95% confidence level. The total may not round to 100% because of rounding. The poll was conducted using interactive voice responses, with the results weighted by voting patterns.
If the Presidential candidates were Democrat Bernie Sanders and Republican Donald Trump, for whom would you vote?
Sanders 56%
Trump 44%
http://big.assets.huffingtonpost.com/Gravis_Sanders_Election_Poll.pdf
Bernie Sanders would have crushed Donald Trump according to new pre-election poll.
The poll, reported by the Huffington Post, found that the Vermont senator would have likely earned 56 per cent of the vote, while Mr Trump would have only received 44 per cent.
Democratic Congressman Alan Grayson, who endorse Mr Sanders during the primaries, commissioned the poll by Gravis Marketing.
Hillary Clinton did not fare quite as well in the poll amongst Independent voters ā who could not vote during the primaries, resulting in Mr Sanders' loss to the former Secretary of State.
The poll found that Mr Sanders led Ms Clinton among independent voters 55 to 45 per cent.
Ms Clinton suffered a major blow Tuesday night from that particular demographic, losing independents to Donald Trump 48 per cent to 42 per cent.
http://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-elections/bernie-sanders-beaten-donald-trump-pre-election-poll-a7412636.html
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If you think chickenhawk Trump was a āconscientious objectorā with his admiration for dictators, his giant hard-on for the military, desire for a parade, repeatedly questioning why we canāt nuke people, wanting to kill innocent family members of terrorists, pro-waterboarding, wants to fill up Guantanamo bay after his predecessor emptied it by 75%, dropped the MOAB and talks about āBig beautiful bombsā, hires John Bolton, etc ...well, that takes a huge amount of cognitive dissonance.
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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Dzooky Nduru thereās been enough things Trump has done and said to warrant impeachment, in my opinion.
You probably have a ready excuse for all of them if youāve followed the news all year...otherwise you havenāt seen the complaints in which case you can find with an easy search.
I do understand that his supporters feel itās a witch hunt. I personally think theyāve allowed their fervent loyalty to cloud their judgement by only selectively hearing what they want. To me Trump is a chameleon who speaks out of both sides of his mouth and spews his word salad which clearly has made him a very effective conman. His listenersā brains end up filtering what they hear. But thatās my opinion. Iāll leave you to yours. And others who are making much better points than I am today.
Just to back up what I was saying about Clintonās impeachment, I found this on Gallup:
It is clear that last week's air strikes against Iraq were overwhelmingly popular with the American public: 78% of Americans approved and only 18% disapproved. Additionally, the attacks appeared to have been viewed as legitimate by most Americans.
The criticism that they were ordered by Clinton in part to divert attention away from the impeachment proceedings was endorsed by only 25% of the public.
Most thought that they were "in the best interests of the country."
Dramatic, sharply focused events which involve Americans placed in harms way on foreign soil are part of a class of occurrences known as rally events, so named because they typically cause the American public to "rally around the flag" and usually result in increased job approval ratings for the sitting president.
In recent years, such events have included Desert Storm and the Invasion of Panama in the Bush administration and air strikes against Libya and the invasion of Grenada in the Reagan administration. Given these past experiences, it might be expected that the Iraq strikes would boost the President's job approval numbers.
http://news.gallup.com/poll/4111/clinton-receives-record-high-job-approval-rating-after-impeachment-vot.aspx
At the same time, the House vote on Saturday was an historic event of great significance and one that dominated television and news coverage. As has generally been the case for several months, public opinion about this impeachment action, although not as sharply defined as the reaction to the Iraq attacks, is strongly negative, with disapproval of the House vote running ahead of approval by a 63% to 35% margin. Other measures included in Gallup's most recent poll underscore this negative reaction. There has been a significant drop in favorable opinions of the Republican Party -- at the same time that 54% of Americans agree that the Republicans in Congress have abused their Constitutional authority.
This negative reaction to the congressional emphasis on impeachment, combined with the positive reaction to the Iraq strikes, may have resulted this past weekend in a renewed focus by the public on what they perceive Clinton to be doing right. A parallel phenomenon occurred last January, as the Lewinsky crisis first broke, when a successful State of the Union address by Clinton resulted in an increase rather than a decrease in his job approval by the American public.
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FTC:
$50 million in refund checks for University of Phoenix students
By Lesley Fair
March 24, 2021
āThe checkās in the mail.ā Youāve heard it before, but this time itās true if you are one of the 147,000 University of Phoenix students who will be receiving payments totaling more than $50 million as a result of the FTCās law enforcement action against the online school.
In a 2019 lawsuit, the FTC alleged the University of Phoenix lured consumers in with ads that falsely touted ā among other things ā job opportunities for its students with national employers like AT&T, Yahoo!, Microsoft, Twitter, and the American Red Cross. To settle the case, the defendants agreed to pay $50 million in direct payments for some students and an additional $141 million in canceled balances that eligible students owed directly to the school. (Other debts ā for example, federal and private student loans or military benefits ā arenāt affected by the settlement.)
Who is getting the 146,804 checks and 677 PayPal payments the FTC is sending out? The money is going to students who:
first enrolled in a masters, bachelors, or associates degree program between October 15, 2012, and December 31, 2016;
paid more than $5,000 with cash, grants, federal and private student loans, or military benefits;
didnāt get debt cancellation as part of this settlement; and
didnāt opt out of the University of Phoenix providing the studentās contact information to the FTC.
People who receive checks should deposit or cash them within 90 days. By the way, the FTC never requires people to pay money or provide account information to get a refund or to cash a refund check. People who get a refund via PayPal will have 30 days to accept the payment. (This FAQ has more information about the PayPal payment process.)
If you have questions about debt canceled by the school, email the University of Phoenix at UOPXFinance@phoenix.edu or call 1-800-333-5305. For questions about refunds, call the FTCās refund administrator, Rust Consulting, at 1-877-310-0487.
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Some 145,000 observers were monitoring the voting in the world's largest country, including 1,500 foreigners and representatives from opposition leader Alexei Navalny's political movement. Navalny himself is barred from running.
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/russian-election-voters-head-to-the-polls-to-hand-putin-a-4th-term/
Many voters said they were under pressure from their employers to vote.
Yevgeny, a 43-year-old mechanic voting in central Moscow, said he briefly wondered whether it was worth voting.
"But the answer was easy ... If I want to keep working, I vote,"
he said. He said his bosses haven't asked for proof of voting but he fears they will.
He spoke on condition that his last name not be used out of concern that his employer -- the Moscow city government -- would find out.
Yevgeny Roizman, the mayor of Russia's fourth-largest city, Yekaterinburg, told The Associated Press that local officials and state employees have all received orders "from higher up" to make sure the presidential vote turnout is over 60 percent.
"They are using everything: schools, kindergartens, hospitals -- the battle for the turnout is unprecedented," said Roizman, one of the rare opposition politicians to hold a significant elected office.
A doctor at one of the city's hospitals told the AP how one kind of voting pressure works.
The doctor, who gave her name only as Yekaterina because of fears about repercussions, said she and her co-workers were told to fill out forms detailing not only where they would cast their ballots, but giving the names and details of two "allies" whom they promised to persuade to go vote.
"People were indignant at first, said: 'They're violating our rights' ... but what can you do?"
she said at a cafe Saturday.
Yekaterina said she wasn't sure what she would do with her ballot, musing that "maybe I'll just write 'Putin is a moron.'"
But she understood that not showing up at the polling place Sunday would not only endanger her job but would reflect badly on her boss, whom she likes.
She said she wouldn't go to vote if she wasn't forced to.
"What's the point? We already know the outcome. This is just a circus show," she said.
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How many months ago was that? Itās August now.
How many had died in March?
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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TheRedRaccoonDog I'm guessing you mean the overly vocal nasty trolls posting on YouTube.
Thank the lord they're not representative of all the people on the right. They're pretty tough so deal with, cuz they're closed minded, outrageous, loud, shameless, and love to get people riled up.
Individuals on the right who aren't trolls though are just people. With a variety of beliefs and life experiences. I'll bet a lot of them never even post anything, just lurk and read.
It's easy to forget a lot of us are just members of the party our parents were, or we chose when we were kids straight outta high school.
I'm not religious anymore myself, but honestly religious people gravitate toward the right. Even if they don't believe everything in their platform.
I know the left is accepting of all beliefs (including no beliefs), but aggressive atheist types who attack people on their closely-held belief system are just good at winning arguments...and making people more closed minded.
I understand it's hard to be patient with people when they have a belief system that requires a suspension of reality, but the approach can be off-putting and nobody's going to just give up being a member of their religion instantly one day because somebody made a good argument against theirs.
This isn't about you or Kyle or anything. Just pointing out something on the left where I think we need to be building bridges. The right needs to stop being the home for the religious. They've stirred up this frenzy that the left is persecuting them and wants to take away their religious freedoms.
People are honestly imagining themselves having secret bible meetings by candlelight in basements "if the left gets its way", like those missionaries in Russia who had to proselytize in secret or be arrested.
Completely irrational, I know. But there's people in the pulpits putting this ridiculous stuff in their heads.
There's someone in my family who hates cronyism, lobbying, war profiteering...and loves animals, the earth, cares about the environment, and our gay relatives.
A natural fit for the left you'd think? All except...he's religious.
So while he loves and supports his gay relatives 100% in the personal sense and even wants to be part of their gay wedding ceremony, he still is conflicted on the topic in general. And although he supports abortion as a right for everyone, that he'd never choose for himself, he has trouble wrapping his mind around "pro-choice" meaning exactly that, letting people choose. Instead of "who-hoo I think abortion is great and should be used like birth control" how others are framing it. But he worries about when "the soul" comes into the fetus...is it at conception? Some point in the middle, right before birth, at birth? Whether anyone else thinks the way he does, he agonizes internally over the ethical issue. He's empathetic that a woman faced with an unplanned pregnancy is agonizing over it too thankfully. But the question of whether he's right with God on the issues weighs heavily on him.
He fell for the idea of Trump being a businessman could mean a good economy for us, smartly run instead of bureaucratic nonsense and waste. Ala Ross Perot.
He saw out government as dysfunctional and throwing a Trump grenade into the works as shaking things up so we could get the parasitic vultures out and run the country eventually more efficiently.
They were nice ideas and he's since not viewing Trump so favorably anymore.
He's seeing through the facade Trump put up, the hypocrisy, and the serious risks Trump is exposing us to with his ego and his rashness.
I don't know if I had a conclusion to end it with, I just got to talking and had some points I wanted to verbalize in real life examples.
I guess mostly that there's people who'd be on our "side" if we didn't alienate them, and recognize their religious beliefs can be a huge factor in turning them against "us". So our approach can be important when talking to them. I worry the left is accidentally making enemies with people who are religious. And many of them don't need any help in that regard. The right is whispering in their ear that we're a people without ethics, who want to take their rights away. They're full of crap, but they're winning at this point so far.
Ok ramble over. If you read this far, I thank you for your time. :)
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Too many Trump virus deaths.
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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As a progressive, I wouldn't presume to speak on behalf of all the others.
I'm with Bernie, responsible gun ownership, registration, training.
The rate of suicides by gun in our country are astronomical. If I recall correctly, that statistic dwarfs all other gun deaths.
What's the solution?
I'm not sure. Less guns, better locking, less access, more psychological and criminal background checks, better chain of ownership registration...are probably all good ideas.
We run the gamut on gun ownership, I think a large percentage feel the way I do.
Many do want them banned outright, and I understand where they're coming from too. Once you've been through a gun tragedy yourself, it doesn't make guns seem so "fun" anymore.
But even if we had an all democratic government, we'd never fully ban guns in America. They're too ingrained in our history and culture. Nothing like that would ever pass. The best we can hope for is sensible measures to mitigate accidental and intentional deaths by theses deadly weapons.
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Trump spent his adult life as a libtard? Lol, so I guess he was an adult for a total of 8 years (strangely, pretty much just while dubya was president). Amazes me how many of Trumpās own supporters keep repeating that even though itās wrong.
Trump party affiliation:
Republican:
2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013
Independent:
2012, 2011
Republican:
2010, 2009
Democrat:
2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001
Independent:
2000, 1999
Republican:
1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987
Ind. or other: 4 years
Democratic: 8 years
Republican: 20 years
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excerpts: California Democrats decline to endorse Feinstein
https://www.politico.com/story/2018/02/25/california-democrats-feinstein-leon-423452?cid=apn
The party declines to give its backing to the state's senior senator.
SAN DIEGO ā In a sharp rebuke of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, the California Democratic Party has declined to endorse the stateās own senior senator in her bid for reelection.
Riven by conflict between progressive and more moderate forces
at the state partyās annual convention here, delegates favored Feinsteinās progressive rival, state Senate leader Kevin de LeĆ³n, over Feinstein
by a 54 percent to 37 percent margin, according to results announced Sunday.
Neither candidate reached the 60 percent threshold required to receive the party endorsement for 2018.
But the snubbing of Feinstein led de LeĆ³n to claim a victory for his struggling campaign.
āThe outcome of todayās endorsement vote is an astounding rejection of politics as usual, and it boosts our campaignās momentum as we all stand shoulder-to-shoulder against a complacent status quo,ā
de LeĆ³n said in a prepared statement. āCalifornia Democrats are hungry for new leadership that will fight for California values from the front lines, not equivocate on the sidelines.ā
A centrist Democrat, Feinstein has long maintained an uneasy relationship with activists who dominate state party conventions, and the vote this weekend ā while embarrassing ā was not unexpected.
The result followed two days of lobbying by the candidates in convention speeches and throughout the convention halls.
In an appeal to thousands of delegates Saturday, de LeĆ³n portrayed himself as an agent of change. He cast Feinstein, without mentioning her name, as a Washington power broker out of touch with progressive activists at home.
The non-endorsement appears unlikely to immediately alter the trajectory of a contest Feinstein is leading by a wide margin.
Feinstein is out-polling de LeĆ³n 46 percent to 17 percent among likely California voters, according to the most recent poll by the Public Policy Institute of California.
Her financial advantage is even more overwhelming:
Feinstein held close to $10 million in cash on hand at the end of last year, while de LeĆ³n reported raising just $500,000.
Addressing the convention Saturday, Feinstein reminded delegates of her experience and what she portrayed as a lifetime of service in the cause of Democratic values.
And though supporters this year waved signs and stopped Feinstein to pose for photographs, she at times appeared out of step working the convention halls.
Interrupted in her convention speech Saturday by music signaling her time to speak had run out, Feinstein said, āI guess my time is up.ā
As she left the stage, de LeĆ³n supporters in the crowd yelled back at the 84-year-old, āTimeās up! Timeās up!ā
The state party returned a non-endorsement in Californiaās other major statewide contest, as well.
In the race for governor,
Lt. Gov. Gavin Newsom led all candidates with 39 percent support, followed by state Treasurer
John Chiang and former state schools chief
Delaine Eastin with 30 percent and 20 percent, respectively.
Former Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who has drawn close to Newsom at the top of statewide public opinion polls, finished a distant fourth,
at 9 percent.
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
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147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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Splinter:
Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Bunch of Pro-Gun, Anti-Abortion Republican Congressional Campaigns
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Hamilton Nolan
9/05/18 11:25AM
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Bald industrialist Jeff Bezos, the head of Amazon and Americaās richest man, has officially waded into the midterms with a $10 million PAC donation. It is reflective of his absolute inability to spend money in a socially good way.
Bezosā net worth currently stands at $167 billion, a number higher than you can comprehend. Unlike his mega-billionaire peers like Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg, and Warren Buffett, he has not made substantial financial commitments to charity.
He is so weirdly incapable of conceptualizing how he might use his immense fortune to help the world that he famously asked for philanthropy ideas on Twitter, and even more famously said, āThe only way that I can see to deploy this much financial resource is by converting my Amazon winnings into space travel.ā
Jeff Bezos could be saving literally millions of human lives per year and curing entire diseases in the developing world but instead all he can think of is to build space rockets. He is a walking advertisement for the necessity of wealth confiscation.
Anyhowāhe just donated $10 million to a political action committee. This amount of money, though small for him, makes him a major political donor in the context of the midterm elections. And what political ideology has Americaās richest man chosen to support? If you guessed āThe most confused, incoherent, counterproductive one,ā you are extremely correct.
He has donated to a PAC called With Honor, which brands itself as āa cross-partisan organizationā that works to elect military veterans to Congressāas long as they take THE PLEDGE, in which they promise to have integrity and civility and to ājoin with colleagues on both sides of the aisle on at least one piece of major legislation each year.ā So, lots of new cross-partisan Post Office namings.
If you are even mildly politically astute, you may have already picked up on the fact that this PAC seems to have no coherent political philosophy whatsoever. It is the most milquetoast sort of flag-waving meaninglessness.
And indeed, when you look at the list of candidates that the PAC is supporting, you will notice a mix of Democrats and Republicans who have nothing in common except being veterans and who, if elected, will just cancel out one anotherās votes. Great thing to spend $10 million on.
Additionally, this means that Amazonās Jeff Bezos is spending millions of dollars to directly support the campaigns of Republican candidates including:
Michael Waltz.
As a small business owner I have created hundreds of jobs and know first-hand the benefits of President Trumpās tax relief and de-regulation...
I have carried a rifle and a pistol for most of my adult life, and fired both in defense of every American and myself...
Iām a strong supporter of the right to life. I believe we must defend life at every stage and protect the most vulnerable members of our society.
Dan Crenshaw
I support the Tax Cuts and Jobs Act. As Democrats make false accusations about Republican policies, we must stick to free-market principles and lay out the FACTS... [ed.-lol]
I will always fight for 2nd Amendment rights. Democrats who donāt understand how guns even work continue to propose frivolous and ineffective gun-control legislation in Congress. We cannot allow the Leftists to set the terms of the gun rights debate in this country...
From Berkeley to Boston, leftist agitators are trying to āenforceā political correctness by shutting down speeches that they disagree with. Even some liberal commentators are finding this problematic and have called them out for their anti-American ways. College should be a place for the free and open exchange of ideas, not a place where groupthink and political correctness are enforced, and anti-conservative thugs reign supreme.
Van Taylor
Repeal Obamacare. Contrived in backroom deals and riddled with broken promises and false hope, former President Barack Obama, Nancy Pelosi, and their allies in Washington forced on the American people a $1.7 trillion dollar takeover of our healthcare system...
I am proudly pro-life and believe life begins at conception and ends at natural death. For my commitment protecting the unborn, I have earned a 100%+ pro-life rating and multiple endorsements from Texas Right to Life during my time in the State Legislature...
Defending Second Amendment Freedoms. On their sixteenth birthday some kids ask for a car. On my sixteenth birthday, I asked my dad for a membership to the National Rifle Association (NRA). As a lifelong gun owner, avid hunter, and life member of both the NRA and Texas State Rifle Association (TSRA), I have always fought to defend and expand our second amendment freedoms and will continue this fight against the gun-grabbers in Washington, D.C.
Don Bacon
Illustration for article titled Jeff Bezos Is Funding a Bunch of Pro-Gun, Anti-Abortion Republican Congressional Campaigns
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
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147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
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....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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What is your angle on this, and if your statement were true...what would it prove?
The majority of people who post about this topic on YouTube comments are Christians who say the people known as the Jews today arenāt really descended from the Jews.
This is also from your quoted authorās DNA study which compared the Khazar theory to the Rhineland theory:
āThe most parsimonious explanation for our findings is that Eastern European Jews are of JudeoāKhazarian ancestry forged over many centuries in the Caucasus. Jewish presence in the Caucasus and later Khazaria was recorded as early as the late centuries BCE and reinforced due to the increase in trade along the Silk Road (fig. 1), the decline of Judah (1stā7th centuries), and the uprise of Christianity and Islam (Polak 1951). GrecoāRoman and Mesopotamian Jews gravitating toward Khazaria were also common in the early centuries and their migrations were intensified following the Khazarsā conversion to Judaism (Polak 1951; Brook 2006; Sand 2009). The eastward male-driven migrations (fig. 7) from Europe to Khazaria solidified the exotic Southern European ancestry in the Khazarian gene pool (fig. 5), and increased the genetic heterogeneity of the JudeoāKhazars. The religious conversion of the Khazars encompassed most of the empireās citizens and subordinate tribes and lasted for the next 400 years (Polak 1951; Baron 1993) until the invasion of the Mongols (Polak 1951; Dinur 1961; Brook 2006). At the final collapse of their empire (13th century), many of the JudeoāKhazars fled to Eastern Europe and later migrated to Central Europe and admixed with the neighboring populations.
Historical and archeological findings shed light on the demographic events following the Khazarsā conversion. During the half millennium of their existence (740ā1250 CE), the JudeoāKhazars sent offshoots into the Slavic lands, such as Romania and Hungary (Baron 1993), planting the seeds of a great Jewish community to later rise in the Khazarian diaspora. We hypothesize that the settlement of JudeoāKhazars in Eastern Europe was achieved by serial founding events, whereby populations expanded from the Caucasus into Eastern and Central Europe by successive splits, with daughter populations expanding to new territories following changes in socio-political conditions (Gilbert 1993). These events may have contributed to the higher homogeneity observed in Jewish communities outside Khazariaās borders (table 1).
After the decline of their empire, the JudeoāKhazars refugees sought shelter in the emerging Polish kingdom and other Eastern European communities where their expertise in economics, finances, and politics was valued. Prior to their exodus, the JudeoāKhazar population was estimated to be half a million in size, the same as the number of Jews in the PolishāLithuanian kingdom four centuries later (Polak 1951; Koestler 1976). Some JudeoāKhazars were left behind, mainly in the Crimea and the Caucasus, where they formed Jewish enclaves surviving into modern times. One of the dynasties of Jewish princes ruled in the 15th century under the tutelage of the Genovese Republic and later of the Crimean Tartars. Another vestige of the Khazar nation is the āMountain Jewsā in the North Eastern Caucasus (Koestler 1976).ā
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How Herman Cain doing?
Coronavirus deaths in the US
....1,400 deaths Friday March 27th
....6,000 deaths Friday April 3rd
..18,000 deaths Friday April 10th
..32,000 deaths Friday April 17th
..46,000 deaths Friday April 24th
..64,000 deaths Friday May 1st
..69,000 deaths Friday May 8th
..88,000 deaths Friday May 15th
..94,000 deaths Friday May 22nd
104,000 deaths Friday May 29th
110,000 deaths Friday June 5th
116,000 deaths Friday June 12th
120,000 deaths Friday June 19th
127,000 deaths Friday June 26th
132,000 deaths Friday July 3rd
136,000 deaths Friday July 10th
140,000 deaths Friday July 17th
147,000 deaths Friday July 24th
156,000 deaths Friday July 31st
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